Post-Market Clinical Follow-Up onTVT EXACT® Continence System

Description

The objective of this single arm, post market, clinical study is to evaluate the performance of Gynecare TVT EXACT® Continence System in women undergoing retropubic mid-urethral sling surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI).

Conditions

Stress Urinary Incontinence

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The objective of this single arm, post market, clinical study is to evaluate the performance of Gynecare TVT EXACT® Continence System in women undergoing retropubic mid-urethral sling surgery for Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI).

A Long Term Prospective Post Market Clinical Follow-up (PMCF) of the GYNECARE TVT EXACT® Continence System for the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence

Post-Market Clinical Follow-Up onTVT EXACT® Continence System

Condition
Stress Urinary Incontinence
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Durham

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27707

North Wales

Institute for Female Pelvic Medicine, North Wales, Pennsylvania, United States, 19454

Pittsburgh

UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Stress urinary incontinence symptoms
  • 2. Stress urinary incontinence confirmed by diagnostic evaluation of a cough stress test
  • 3. Female subjects ≥ 21 years of age requiring treatment of SUI
  • 4. Desired surgical correction of stress urinary incontinence using a synthetic pubo-urethral vaginal sling
  • 5. Planned surgery for primary stress incontinence without concomitant prolapse surgery
  • 6. Patient able and willing to participate in follow-up
  • 7. Subject or authorized representative has signed the approved informed consent
  • 1. Physical or psychological condition which would impair study participation or are unwilling or unable to participate in all required study visits and are unable to complete the questionnaires
  • 2. Any pre-operative or intra-operative findings identified by the surgeon that may preclude the use of study product
  • 3. History of previous synthetic, biologic or fascial pubo-urethral sling
  • 4. Pregnancy or plans for future pregnancy
  • 5. History of bleeding diathesis or current anti-coagulation therapy which cannot be suspended peri-operatively according to site's standard practice.
  • 6. Current genitourinary fistula or urethral diverticulum
  • 7. Reversible cause of incontinence (i.e. drug effect)
  • 8. Contraindication to surgery

Ages Eligible for Study

21 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Ethicon, Inc.,

Martin Weisberg, MD, STUDY_DIRECTOR, Ethicon, Inc.

Study Record Dates

2036-02-28